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Is Chester Center, CT tap water safe?

2 utilities serve Chester Center, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and CDC’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

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The short answer

1 of the 2 utilities serving Chester Center has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records: Ctwc - Shoreline Reg - Chester Vllg West.

Ctwc - Shoreline Region - Chester System, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Uranium at 1.3 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Chester Center’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

Water testing near Chester Center

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Connecticut certifies.

The 3 labs Connecticut certifies closest to Chester Center, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • CorrTech Corrosion Laboratory

    Deep River, CT · about 3 miles

    Certified for minerals and other inorganics

    (860) 526-2610

  • Environmental Consulting Lab

    Madison, CT · about 9 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, metals, minerals and other inorganics, radioactivity

    (203) 245-0568

  • Eastern Analytical Laboratory, Inc.

    Old Saybrook, CT · about 9 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (860) 388-2378

All 86 certified labs for Connecticut

ZIP codes in Chester Center

Which ZIP codes are in Chester Center: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: Connecticut DPH, approved commercial laboratories certified to test drinking water; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

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